How a 90 Minute Interview with a Designer Resulted in a Product Our Friends Love

[nikilster]

Hey HN family!

Here's an interesting experience we had in one of our interviews. Would love to hear any tips or advice you guys have on interviewing and any feedback you have on our process. Thanks!!

[ryanwitt112]

Best interviews are tests like this - love it!

[cnaut]

+1 love to see companies with innovative interview process that go beyond standard tech interviews and really try get to know applicants. I chose an internship one summer just because I enjoyed the interview process so much.

[nikilster]

Thanks!

[joshdance]

With a team of 3 how many of these hackathon interviews have you done? Seems like a great way to interview.

[Mandatum]

Sounds pretty enjoyable too. Building an MVP/starting a new project is always my favourite thing when it comes to the development process. It's usually not too challenging and lets you get involved in all aspects of the product - from design to deployment.

[mmolinet]

Great way to interview someone. Now if only every interview went that well

[nikilster]

haha we've done several interviews like this and usually we pick a project that we estimate to be 3-4 hours and since we are engineers we pretty much always underestimate how long it will take. It's the first one we have ever finished / shipped. We thought it would be way too simple, turns out it was just right:)

[josephlau]

We've had great experiences so far! Most small hacks / projects that we do end up turning into something that is honestly pretty fun and more often than not, we even end up working on it a bit more.

[ayushsood]

Nice! You did all of this in 90 mins? +1

[nikilster]

Thanks! Finishing the last bit and polishing it up took more than 90 minutes - there's a lot of stuff we needed to do for the app store also - screenshots, etc...

[minch]

So did he get the job?

[nikilster]

We really like him and wanted him to stay. He's a student right now so he's pretty busy.